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There are N cables from the "crane" to the rover. One less and you have a risk of not balancing the rover if one cable cuts too soon. One more and you have a r
by wiz21c 6y ago
There are N cables from the "crane" to the rover. One less and you have a risk of not balancing the rover if one cable cuts too soon. One more and you have a risk of having one cable not cutting at all... I wonder how they fixed that N cables :-)
- ketzo 6y agoAnd imagine the thousands (tens of thousands?) of similar, tiny, critical optimization problems that were required for the development of this rover.... whew.
- exporectomy 6y agoThey have minimum N for stability in normal operation (3). They probably put the reliability into the bridle cutters instead of redundant cables.